Car crash Liz Truss BBC interview tonight

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Did anybody see it?
It was really cringe-worthy

She said 'deliver' about 230 times and blinked about 200 times a minute

She also said she's staying and is planning on leading the Tories into the next election! 😱

After this interview I have shelved the pity I was feeling for her. If I had done what she has I'd be leaving the country, changing my name and considering plastic surgery. She's certainly got a brass neck!

You think lying to get involved in foreign wars is competent?

In context, yes, $ strong, stock markets rising, Gold prices stagnant, but in hindsight - a mistake.

It was also a 10th of what Sunak wasted on CV Business Support loans.

Didn't cause your mortgage rates to triple either did it?

Gordon Brown dropped the ball on gold reserves, but he was responsible for saving not only our banking system, but that of the entire western world. I couldn't imagine any of the current half wits being capable of that.

Very True, Cameron bombing Libya back to the stone age and creating a gateway for illegal migration into Europe was very incompetent.

Where was her cabinet? All these cabinet members and her supporters have spent the last week defending these policies. The tory press congratulated her on her mini budget. All these people deserve to have their reputation shredded too.

Stop with all the whataboutory. Truss has inflicted a massive wound on this country. She is not leading the country.

Conservative or otherwise voter, surely everyone realises she has to go?

And party members shouldn't choose leaders. They certainly shouldn't choose the Prime Minster.

In any other business, if someone had got the top job and made such a disaster at the start, and was on a path to lose most of its members (i.e. MPs) their job in a few years, they would be out.

But they haven't got anyone to step up. So the Tory party is on a death spiral. It would be entertaining to watch but unfortunately their actions affect us.

James Heappey has been on the rounds this morning saying they accepted cabinet responsibility for the budget.

Back to OP. The interview was so cringe worthy. Mr Truss needs to kindly tell her it's time to go.

I laughed that Hunt isn't even bothering to move into number 11. Not worth the effort for a few days...

We, the electorate, don't choose or elect a PM. I wish people would stop peddling this inaccuracy.

Gawd - I mean at a GE.

@WeAreTheHeroes It is correct that we don't vote for a PM but parties stand on a manifesto and the 2019 general election gave the Tories a mandate to deliver that manifesto. Not this insanity that Liz Truss is peddling. If she is so confident in her policies she should go to the country and seek a mandate to implement them. Otherwise she should stick roughly to the outline of the 2019 manifesto.

Under Labour we should have been in a position to better weather the economic crisis, some countries did. The fact is they pissed all the money up the wall, so much waste and bad management including the gold sell off. Gordon Brown didn't take his own advice of saving for a rainy day.

Anyway I think what's so awful here is that the Conservatives are only interested in saving their own skins. All we are able to do is sit and watch as they bring the country down.

She’s monstrous. But I hold no faith for whoever comes next. Where are all the decent and competent people in politics? How did we end up with such a desperately inadequate and horrifyingly odious bunch? People saying they feel sorry for their families, if LT was my daughter/sister/mother then I would find her so repugnant. She has no redeeming qualities.

@ChampagneCamping

thats true because they are all brexit extremists but the only reason they could was

the public voted them in

a. They fell for Tory BS and Boris in Dec 19
b. The Labour Party had an unelectable alternative in Corbyn.

Sorry but it's ridiculous referring back to the manifesto. They win that election because Corbyn was unelectable. Secondly it was followed by covid, an event which changed everything and therefore policies etc need reviewing and changing accordingly.

We do need a GE but I don't want any of them 🙁

I never said we did. The MPs we elect should chose who leads them. It's part of what we elect them for. The extremes of politics which party members are shouldn't be allowed to chose extreme MPs. Corbyn or Truss.

I do think that a new leader of a government should lead to a GE though. Not to chose the PM, but to agree with the inevitable new direction they will lead the party which probably isn't the direction indicated in the last GE. It would be a sensible safeguard against extremists.

I agree

Tory MPs voted for her to get through to the membership vote stage though.

Or she was trying to do some sort of morse code.

”Help! I’m being held hostage.”

I can't believe the rhetoric this am 'she mustn't make any more mistakes if she is going to remain as PM' what!?! Why is that even an option after this farcical few days?

I don't think Togo would let her into the country at the moment.

HoC yesterday was like the prefects were running the class whilst the supply teacher was having a nervy b in the stationery cupboard.

@edwinbear I'm just going to

@edwinbear I'm just going to repeat what I said above.

And the issue with Brown and the gold reserves wasn't so much that he did it but that it was leaked and the market went through the floor as a consequence.
Perhaps you were part of the problem?